After months of litigation, Zoom Video Communications has agreed to pay $85 million to settle a proposed class action pending in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California....more
8/4/2021
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Cybersecurity ,
Data Privacy ,
Data Security ,
Data-Sharing ,
Facebook ,
Google ,
Invasion of Privacy ,
LinkedIn ,
Negligence ,
Popular ,
Section 230 ,
Settlement Agreements ,
Statutory Violations ,
Videoconference ,
Virtual Meetings ,
Zoom®
The 2021 Florida Senate Bill 378 became effective as of July 1, 2021, and implemented major changes for owners, municipalities, and other local government entities that pay contractors for construction services in Florida,...more
On Thursday, June 3, 2021, the United States Supreme Court, in a 6-3 opinion, narrowed the scope of the federal Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA), 18 U.S.C. §§ 1030. In Van Buren v. United States, the Supreme Court reversed...more
In the immediate aftermath of the May 7, 2021 Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack, the focus, naturally, is on the rush to get the pipeline back on line after identifying and patching any vulnerabilities that caused the...more
5/17/2021
/ Critical Infrastructure Sectors ,
Cyber Attacks ,
Cybersecurity ,
Data Management ,
Hackers ,
National Security ,
Oil & Gas ,
Outsourcing ,
Pipelines ,
Ransomware ,
Supply Chain ,
Third-Party Risk ,
Threat Management
Well, it’s over, with a whimper. After months of will-they-or-won’t-they, the Florida legislature went with “won’t” on enacting Florida House Bill 969, the “Florida Privacy Protection Act.” ...more
5/4/2021
/ Consumer Privacy Rights ,
Corporate Counsel ,
Cybersecurity ,
Data Collection ,
Data Management ,
Data Privacy ,
Data Protection ,
Florida ,
Information Governance ,
Legislative Agendas ,
Personal Data ,
Personally Identifiable Information ,
Regulatory Agenda ,
State and Local Government
With just over two full days left in the current Florida legislative session, the Florida House and Senate continue to play tug-of-war over their respective bills for comprehensive data privacy reform in Florida. The Florida...more
4/29/2021
/ Consumer Privacy Rights ,
Cybersecurity ,
Data Collection ,
Data Management ,
Data Privacy ,
Florida ,
Information Governance ,
Legislative Agendas ,
Personal Data ,
Personally Identifiable Information ,
Regulatory Agenda ,
State and Local Government
As the dueling Florida House and Senate consumer data privacy protection bills make their way through various committees in the Florida legislature, April 14, 2021, was the Florida House’s turn for a vote. House Bill 969...more
4/16/2021
/ Consumer Privacy Rights ,
Cybersecurity ,
Data Collection ,
Data Management ,
Data Privacy ,
Data Protection ,
Florida ,
Information Governance ,
Opt-Outs ,
Personal Data ,
Personally Identifiable Information ,
Regulatory Agenda ,
Regulatory Requirements ,
State and Local Government
On Tuesday, April 6, the Florida Senate Rules Committee substantively amended Senate Bill 1734, which would create the “Florida Privacy Protection Act.” This is the Senate version of the dueling Florida House and Senate...more
4/9/2021
/ Consumer Privacy Rights ,
Cybersecurity ,
Data Collection ,
Data Management ,
Data Privacy ,
Data Protection ,
Florida ,
Information Governance ,
Opt-Outs ,
Personal Data ,
Personally Identifiable Information ,
Regulatory Agenda ,
State and Local Government
To sue in federal court, a plaintiff must allege an injury that the court can actually remedy, rather than just issuing an advisory opinion, and a connection between the defendant’s conduct and the actual injury. See...more
The Supreme Court heard oral arguments this week in Van Buren v. United States, which asked the nine Justices to interpret the federal Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA), 18 U.S.C. §§ 1030. The CFAA was enacted in 1986, just...more
As if the recent uptick in national COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations were not enough to tax an already beleaguered health system, on October 28, 2020, three federal agencies issued a cybersecurity Joint Advisory warning of...more
10/30/2020
/ Cyber Attacks ,
Cyber Crimes ,
Cybersecurity ,
Data Breach ,
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) ,
Electronic Protected Health Information (ePHI) ,
FBI ,
Hackers ,
Health Care Providers ,
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) ,
Homeland Security Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) ,
Ransomware ,
Vulnerability Assessments
On October 1, 2020, the U.S. Department of Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) issued an “Advisory on Potential Sanctions Risks for Facilitating Ransomware Payments.” The Advisory, which does not carry the...more
10/6/2020
/ Cyber Crimes ,
Cyber Insurance ,
Cybersecurity ,
Data Security ,
Economic Sanctions ,
Financial Institutions ,
Financial Transactions ,
Foreign Policy ,
International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) ,
National Security ,
Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) ,
Popular ,
Ransomware ,
SDN List ,
TWEA
Long before the COVID-19 pandemic, the construction industry was "going global" using available technology and cloud-based data storage and file sharing on all phases of projects. For example, a project owner might hire a...more
Even before the COVID-19 global pandemic, the construction industry has been “going global” using available technology and Cloud-based data storage and file sharing on all phases of projects. For example, an owner might hire...more